"Britain has bred many great explorers, but they……" — Lewis Gordon Pugh
"Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players."
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11 Quotes by Lewis Gordon Pugh
Lewis Gordon Pugh has 11 quotes on this site.
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In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When…
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On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale…
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I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.
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Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water…
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On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting…
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I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it…
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Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
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Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.
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The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.
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I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and…
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't…
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred,…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made…
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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox…
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A dreamer born is a hero bred...
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them…
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving…
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Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
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